The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-02-10
ATTENTION, AsSAsSINS!
The Citizen Editor Has His Life Threat
ened Again by Crank.

The Citizen Editor Has His Life Threat
ened Again by Crank.
Is the editor of The CITIZEN an
assassin and an incendiary2 If SO
he demands to know where bis
graveyard is situated. We are con
strained to beg the indulgence of
moral people and church people
while we notice again the wicked
assaults made upon our fair and
beautiful name by a cranky peach
err. Rev. John A. Edmundson was
a preacher in the southern Method
lst church before the war and when
the yankees came he deserted his
people and his church and joined
the northern church and he is now
the pastor of the republican Meth
odist church in Nashville. The
reader is familiar with the recent
controversy into which he dragged
us. He sought how he might de-
stroy us and conspired with one
Littleton to compass our murder,
as we are informed. He now de-
MES everythlng.specially, generally,
in detail and in a lump. Another
two column diatribe appeared in
Littleton's Review last Saturday,
beginning thus:
"THE PULASKI CITIZEN, so-called,
is publishing vile, cowardly and
slanderous articles regarding my
self, with the view of having its
assassinary, incendiary, kuklux
henchmen assault me and endan-
ger my life and the lives of my
wife and children. That such can
be his only aim is evident"
We call the attention of the no.
BILE sons of terror, through whose
veins courses the reddest and rich
est blood that ever animated heroes
and patriots,to these reasonable ut
terances.
Brave men do not strike women
nor cranks. The devil could run
amuck through this great people
and emerge unframed if he should
don a clerical garb. This mans
cloth is a rampant about him.
We beseech our people to be pa
tient! We beg you curb your
wrath! This man knows not what
he does. We appeal to the noble
sons Of terror to pass these rawlings
by unnoticed and unavenged.
We have spoken!
Hear this lunatic:
| 7. Now as to my being a bitter
pizen partisan. We are opposed
to all fraud and violence. We
are the friend of the poor and
needy. We are the friend of the
poor colored people, whose wrongs
all just and honest persons acknowl
edge to have been the greatest evel
known in the history of the world
and this in the estimation of ku-
kluxists, constitutes "bitter- pizer
partisan" and is sufficient in the es.
timaticn of The CITIZEN to justify
any form of murder that may be re.
sorted to get me out of the way
You, with your demons of kuklux
rowlers, too cowardly to come on
ly in darkness, and then with your
masked faces and disguised robes
may murder me, but the seed of the
martyr will be the seed of patriot
ism; for you may rest assured that
the patriots of this country, for the
freedom of which so many have
died, will not stand the usurpation
which has been effected by the
fraud and violence Of your kuklu1
marauders, your noble sons of ter
ror." You, with "your noble sons
of terror" have rendered life ant
property less secure here than upor
any spot upon the globe, and have
deprecated the lands in value, I'm
til the whole farming of the coun
try is almost destroyed, and grad
ual and destructive poverty is set
thing down. upon the fair land tina
should bloom like Eden. The poo
colored laborers are forced to worE
for the most pitiful wages, and ther
just before election days they arr
beaten and abused by your kuklnz
demons and murderers. This is the
truth, now fast being revealed tt
the civilized world. You issu,
through your vile sheet, your ku-
:, klux order, for my sssassination
and then claim for your clan, troy
al race of southrons." OF wha
does yonr royalty consist? VIVA
has made The CITIZEN royal? Their,
Is some chosen curse, red with I'M
common wrath, to blast the wretcl
who owes his promotion or great
ness to kuklux reign. The blood
of innocent and helpless American
citizens, which has been shed b.
pour kuklux murderers, cries from
the ground, and the voice thereo
will not be hushed until the Su
preme Ruler shall come to RICH
/, along his own line, eternal nstice
81 The greatest wrong ever inflicted
upon a helpless, your kuklux fraut
and violence, have rendered society
constantly insecure, and made gov
ments the oppression and murdere
y of loyal people and converted thu
official positions of the government
into pensions for your kuklux raid
ers. Now, I am ready to reat
the 46th Psalm and say, let tn
CITIZENS kuklux and hell do thei
best; the Lord of hosts is with us
We will trust in the Lord and d.
,, good, and verify we shall dwell il
the land and be ted. This is NJ,
own, my native land, and here W
propose to stay, and fight it out up
on the line of supreme love for Coz
,, and impartial love for the human
race.
l may not have known how t.
have spelled "kukiux' so promptl
as The CITIzEN-probably havin;
never practiced it so much as it,
editor, and may have not been abb
to write in the dark, as he may b
/: able to do at roll, call, but we assur
THE CITIZEN the spelling was no
ours; some evil spirit in the offic
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